Robert Silverman
Professor Emeritus
Piano music, Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Chopin, Bach, Liszt, Rachmaninoff
Stephan K.W. Schwarz, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Professor & Dr. Jean Templeton Hugill Chair in Anesthesia
Director, Hugill Anesthesia Research Centre
Dept. of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Editor-in-Chief, Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d’anesthésie
Anesthesiology, perioperative medicine, local & regional anesthesia, analgesia, pain, pharmacology, study design, biomedical publishing,
Hector Williams, BA Hons, MA, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Classics and Classical Archaeology
Fifty years of experience in maritime archaeology in Mediterranean and Arctic; classical archaeology in Greece and Turkey. Maritime history of Canada. Maritime museums (on board of Vancouver Maritime Museum for 30 years). Vampire archaeology (National Geographic tv special). Atlantis (once regular on CBC radio and tv on Atlantis stories).
Dr. Jean Chanoine, MD, PhD
Clinical Professor
Pediatric Endocrinologist
Pediatric endocrinology, Capacity building, access to medicine, clinical care in low-income countries,
Short CV:
Dr. Chanoine trained in Belgium and joined British Columbia Children’s Hospital (Vancouver) in 1998 as Head of the Endocrinology and Diabetes Unit. His previous experience includes a fellowship at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, USA; Pediatric Endocrinologist at Hôpital Universitaire des Enfants Reine Fabiola in Brussels; and Medical Director for Novo Nordisk Belgium.
Dr Chanoine has published more than 120 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is increasingly active in the field of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes in low resource settings (Low and Middle Income Countries) as a researcher, a mentor and an advocate. He is presently Secretary General of Global Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes (GPED, www.globalpedendo.org) a charitable organisation that he incorporated in Canada. He sits on the NCDChild working group for “access to Medicines” and on the expert committee for Essential InVitro Diagnoses at the WHO.
He was a teacher at the Pediatric Endocrinology Training Centers in Africa (PETCA) in Kenya and at the Maghreb School (Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria). His primary interest in global health is “access to essential medicines” in pediatric endocrinology and diabetes.
Carolin Klein
Multidisciplinary Vulvodynia Program Director
Vulvodynia, provoked vestibulodynia, sexual pain, sexual desire, sexual function
W. Peter Ward
Professor
History of health
Peter von Dadelszen
Professor
hypertension in pregnancy; fetal growth restrictions; medical complications of pregnancy; provision of maternity services
Mark Vessey
Associate Professor
Classical/Christian literary culture in late antiquity, European Renaissance, church fathers (i.e. Augustine, Jerome), Erasmus, bible and book history
Jack Taunton
Professor; Co-Director
sports medicine; exercise management; stress fracture; exercise and the elderly; 2010 medical programs, doping, emergency, care and sports medicine, Chief Medical Officer for 2010
David Stapells, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Newborn hearing screening, tests of hearing in children and adults, brain responses and hearing, electrophysiological diagnosis, auditory evoked potentials
Siân Spacey
Associate Clinical Professor, Neurology
Director, UBC Headache Clinic
Headaches, migraines, ataxia
Evan Wood, MD, PhD, ABIM, FRCPC
Professor
Injection drug use, population health, epidemiology, urban health, HIV/AIDS, antiretroviral therapy, addiction, opioids, fentanyl
Patricia A. Shaw
Professor
Founding Chair, First Nations and Endangered Languages Program
First Nations languages, endangered languages, language revitalization, community capacity-building for language sustainability, archival research for endangered Aboriginal languages
Robert Schellenberg, MD, FRCP(C)
Professor
Primary immune deficiency, asthma, allergic diseases
Thomas Salumets, PhD
Associate Professor
German and Estonian, theory, figurational sociology and Norbert Elias
Laurie Ricou
Professor
Canadian literature, British Columbia, Pacific Northwest writing, regionalism, environment/ecology and literature
Dr. John Richardson, PhD
Professor
water, endangered species, species at risk, freshwater, conservation, wildlife, ecology, populations, ecosystems, invertebrates,
Jerilynn C. Prior
Professor
Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism
Scientific Director, CeMCOR (Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research)
Women’s Health, Endocrinology, Menstrual Cycles, Ovulation, Short Luteal Phases, Anovulation, Vasomotor Symptoms, Hot Flushes/Night Sweats, Perimenopause, Menarche, Menopause, Bone Physiology, Estradiol, Progesterone, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, Testosterone, Anovulatory Androgen Excess, Gender Equality, Cycle Phase Difference, Gender and Sex Differences, Aging, Osteoporosis, Calcium, Vitamin D, Contraception, Cyclic Progesterone Therapy, Infertility, Reproductive Aging, Quantitative Basal Temperature, Diagnosis of Ovulation, Breast Physiology, Cardiovascular Physiology, Breast Cancer, Endometrial Cancer, Women’s Interest in Sex, Eating Attitudes, Relative Energy Deficiency-Sport, Premenstrual Symptoms, Cramps/Dysmeorrhea, Heavy Flow/Menorrhagia, Amenorrhea, Oligomenorrhea, Endometriosis, Fibroids, Vaginal Dryness, Menstruation, ovulation, osteoporosis, perimenopause, menopause, hot flushes, progesterone, estrogen dominance, women’s health, menopause, birth control pills, breast health, calcium, vitamin D, insulin resistance, eating attitudes/eating restraint, premenstrual symptoms, anovulatory androgen excess (PCOS), polycystic ovary syndrome
Peter Petro, PhD
Professor
Russian, Czech, Slovak literature, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy
Dr. Steven Pelech, PhD
Professor
Cancer, Neurological disorders, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, ALS, Diabetes, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Biochemistry, Signal Transduction, Cell signalling, Protein kinases, Protein phosphatase, Transcription factors, Cell receptors, Proteins, Peptides, Peptide synthesis, SPOT peptide synthesis, Antibodies, Antibody microarrays, Serological tests, Bioinformatics, Ethics, Evolution, Social intelligence, Cellular intelligence, Molecular intelligence, Biotechnology,